Rich Bruchal

I’m a little late to the party, but today I downloaded and tried Times Reader, the standalone application that downloads and displays the New York Times.
At first blush, I like it a lot. It took a long time to download, mostly because it uses .NET 3.0, which I didn’t have on my XP machine (it’s […]

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Original Star Trek Gets Upgraded: “Kiss the miniature Enterprise model goodbye: CBS is releasing digitally remastered episodes of the beloved 1960s TV series. Will modern, computer-generated special effects leave fans beaming?

My guess is no. Look at the backlash against George Lucas when he “updated’ Star Wars.
(Via Wired News: Top Stories.)

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Law & Order & Muppets: “

It’s not the same as an invisible Snuffleupagus, but there is something very exciting happening with Sesame Street. On August 14, a segment called ‘Law and Order Special Letters Unit’ will premiere, starting with ‘The Missing M.’ Hal Boedeker at the Orlando Sentinel reports that the actual cast […]

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Simpsons live-action video a marketing campaign: ”
This way cool live-action version of the opening
sequence of The Simpsons might be a little less cool now that we know what it’s about. It turns out, the video
is part of a viral marketing
campaign by UK broadcasting network, Sky. The network and its ad agency created the dead-on, live-action […]

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The Torn-Up Credit Card Experiment: “Chase issues a Mastercard to taped-up card applications for another address [via]’”

This is not good. Apparently, this guy tried an experiment where he tried to mimic someone finding a credit card application in your trash and using it to get credit in your name.
He tore up a credit card application […]

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Six Feet Under surfaces on Bravo:
Bravo has the exclusive rights
to air all 63 episodes of the HBO hit series, Six Feet Under. Bravo says it’ll start airing the entire series
sometime this year, possibly this fall, although the announcement doesn’t give an exact date. HBO
refuses to say exactly how much the syndication deal is worth but […]

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Severed arm found near accident still clutching cellphone
Not that it’s proof of blame or anything
but a woman recently veered her truck into the median, over-corrected, and then flipped her vehicle several times
before coming to rest — minus her cellphone which was found still clutched in the hand of her severed arm nearby. What
have we learned […]

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